Well, the test seems to have worked in that Comic-Con International was able to actually sell 1000 tickets. But it all happened so fast.

People logging into the TicketLeap site were able, after some hanging, to get in and register for tickets. But according toJonah Weiland, who joined with others to attempt to buy tickets, within moments, a “Checkout failed: Not enough tickets remain for the event to fulfill your purchase” result came up. So about 1000 tickets were sold in 60 seconds. Given the 250-requests-a-second that David Glanzerreferred to yesterday, that’s not hard to believe.

As of right now people are shaking their fists and cursing and moaning that Comic-Con sucks and they aren’t going…much the same as every Hotel-o-ween.

And you know what? Whenever tickets go on sale again, these people will be right back online, hitting refresh.

The local Channel 8 station saw fit to file a news report:

UPDATE: We contacted David Glanzer on whether the test worked and he says:

The test went as planned. I think one of the important things is that we made 1,000 badges available and we were able to sell 1,000. Last two attempts we could only process a handful so in that respect yes, it was a success.

We will now spend the next two weeks or so going over the data and seeing exactly what worked, and what needs adjusting. Hopefully we’ll have an announcement in January as to how we’re going to move forward.

Heidi MacDonald is the founder and editor in chief of The Beat. In the past, she worked for Disney, DC Comics, Fox and Publishers Weekly. She can be heard regularly on the More To Come Podcast. She likes coffee, cats and noble struggle.

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It worked, though they did get thumped in the first minute and half the tickets were held until 8:30, but now they know how many servers to go live with.

Never mind 250 requests per second, this time it was 844!

Maybe the good news is that only(!) 51,658 people tried to buy. So half the tickets will sell in the first 5 minutes when they finally go live… and then the remaining pile of them will dribble away over a couple of months.

Or 500,000 people chose to skip this test and the tickets will all sell in 2 minutes.